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Conservancy Fundraiser

The Software Freedom Conservancy have sent us a message asking for our help. This help is almost entirely advertising related, is anyone interested or available to put together Inkscape's response?

Hi Project Representatives!

As some of you may know, we're in the process of fundraising for
general Conservancy donations - so we can raise the money we need to
help you! The administrative percentage we receive from our member
projects together doesn't pay for all the work we do for our projects
so we are always going full tilt to get everything done and fund our
scrappy staff of four people while supporting nearly 50 projects. 

Private Internet Access, along with eight individual donors have
challenged us to raise $90K by mid-January. That sounds like a long
time, but we are competing with many other worthy causes for attention
-- and financial support at this time of year. As member project reps,
you are uniquely positioned to help us reach just a few more of the
people who care deeply about free software.

Things that our member projects have done in the past that have been
really helpful:

* Using social media to share and promote the fundraiser
* Posting an item on techy or nerdy websites, like Reddit, Hackernews
or Slashdot
* Putting an enthusiastic announcement up on your project website
* Emailing your community list(s) where free software supporters hang
out
* Adding a banner to your project website
* Writing blogposts about our shared work (we could post this on
Conservancy's site!)
* Recording a short video saying why you support Conservancy and asking
others to support us too!

Anything you can do to help us amplify the message about Conservancy's
work and this match would be so appreciated! And let us know if we can
return the favor and share any fundraising or year-end news you've got
happening -- we're always up for sharing what our member projects have
happening!

Thanks so much!!
Deb
Edited by Maren Hachmann